Kunstrichtige Schreibart : allerhand Versalie[n] oder AnfangsBuchstabe[n] der teütschen, lateinischen und italianischen Schrifften aus unterschiedlichen Meistern der edlen Schreibkunst zusammen getragen

by: Franck, Paul, fl. 1570-1601; Fürst, Paul, ca. 1605-1666; Gerhard, Christoph, 1624-1681

Publication date: 1655

Topics: Calligraphy, Alphabets

Publisher: Nürnberg : Bey Paulus Fürsten Kunsthändlern daselbst

Collection: getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Sloan Foundation

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: German

Date and printer from colophon

First published 1601 in Nuremberg by the author, Paul Franck. See Thieme-Becker

Woodcut t.p. Engraved emblem of the art of writing, p. 16. The 62 woodcut and 9 engraved plates depict 5 main alphabets. Letters of the last alphabet occupy a full page, with the last 2 (I and J) on folded double leaves (59 and 62.5 cm. in height). Leaf E3+1 printed white on black. Some woodcuts signed PF, for Paul Franck; the last is dated 1597

Signatures: A-B C-D² chi1 E(E3+1) F-T V(V3+1)

Bonacini, C. Arti scrittorie

Thieme-Becker

Binding: parchment MS waste, written with part of the 94th Psalm in Latin, rubricated, with musical setting. Remains of 2 pairs of ties at foredge. Page edges sprinkled red